Everything has changed and nothing is changed.
Death was past, life not come: so he waited.
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
Who does not grow, declines.
By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.
Many a false step is made standing still.
To continue in one path is to go backward.
I do not evolve, I am.
[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.
Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.
To remain static is to lose ground.
You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
To stand still is to regress.
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.
Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.
